The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1887-07-01
PERSONAL ADORNMENT.
WHAT TO DO AND WHAT NOT
TO DO TO BE BEAUTIFUL.

An Old but Long Continuing Fashion.
Babies Dresses-White Dresses Of India
SiIk-An Actress Nightgowns.
Especial Correspondence
..5z. ...s NEW YORK, June II.
The fashion of trying to be beautiful has
not gone out It never will. AS old as Death,
as strong as Life, it obtains through the CEN
turies, while other fashions are born, worn
and buried. It began its reign when the gar
menture of mankind was limited to a belt of
bark and a feather in the hair, and it will en-
dure until the last woman shall have adjusted
her overskirt, rearranged her bangs and gone
off into space on the final fragment of shat
tered world.
And is it not an ennobling fashion? The
means employed often excite contempt and
ridicule-the wish never. The desire to be
beautiful is an uplifting one, for beauty is
sister to goodness. ANY effort toward per-
fiction, though it be step but an inch long,
is true turning of the soul in the direction
of divinity.
To me there is something inexpressibly
heroic, and pathetic, too, in the way women
strive to make themselves look well under all
sorts of discouragements. This is truly the
hope on which we can hang much prophecy
of good, lightly as it is regarded by the un-
thinking. .-.E-
Have we not all seen women-do we not
see them every day, scores of them, bearing
burdens, weary with toll, oppressed by cares,
weakened by i'll health and yet bravely doing
their best to look well personally? 1t is not
easy, either, for busy and tired woman to
give proper attention to her person and her
clothes. Eternal vigilance, yea, eternal effort
is the price Of it. When woman reaches
the point of Indifference in regard to her per-
sonal appearance, it is evident that life has
been too much for her. She has met the
enemy, Trouble, and she is his. Certain
celebrated alienists of France regard indiffeI'-
ence to personal appearance in woman US
incontrovertible evidence that her mind has
given way, and they have good grounds for
their belief When women of refinement re-
lakes on looks her grip on life is as good as
lost, and that is the most tremendous afdiction
which can befall either woman or man. This
world has numerous disillusions, but as long
as we reside in it, the part of wisdom for all
is to keep up an interest in it, to see the best
in it and to refuse to look upon the worst.
To do that, my world weary friend, keep
yourself looking as well as possible, even
though it cost you much trouble.
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A new thing in foot wear is the Mkado
slipper. Dozens of ladies are calling for
them at every shoe store. They belong to
the tracks left in costuming by the "Mikado"
opera, of course. OF russet leather, pointed
and turned up at the toes, with little lacing
in front, they look like the property Of one of
three little maids from school" Made in two
pieces, with bit Of heel about the thickness
of griddle cake, they are just the thing to
"slump" around the house in, and they look
ever SO pretty besides.
The fashion of dressing children's lower ex-
tremities in shoes ard socks, leaving the legs
bare some distance below and above the knees,
is pretty and sensible enough in warm
climate; but it is cruel in place where even
the summer winds are as raw as they are
here. saw child on the horse cars last